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The Single UNIX &reg; Specification, Version 2<br>
Copyright &copy; 1997 The Open Group

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<h4><a name = "tag_001_014_434">&nbsp;</a>NAME</h4><blockquote>
dircmp - directory comparison (<b><a href="intro.html#tag_001_003_003">LEGACY</a></b>)
</blockquote><h4><a name = "tag_001_014_435">&nbsp;</a>SYNOPSIS</h4><blockquote>
<pre><code>

dircmp <b>[</b>-ds<b>]</b><i> dir1 dir2
</i></code>
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</blockquote><h4><a name = "tag_001_014_436">&nbsp;</a>DESCRIPTION</h4><blockquote>
The
<i>dircmp</i>
utility
examines the directory hierarchies specified by
<i>dir1</i>
and
<i>dir2</i>
and generates various tabulated information
about the contents of the directories.
Sorted listings
of files that are unique to each directory are generated
for all the options.
If no option is specified,
a list is output that indicates whether the
filenames common to both directories
have the same contents.
</blockquote><h4><a name = "tag_001_014_437">&nbsp;</a>OPTIONS</h4><blockquote>
The
<i>dircmp</i>
utility supports the <b>XBD</b> specification, <a href="../xbd/utilconv.html#usg"><b>Utility Syntax Guidelines</b>&nbsp;</a> .
The following options are supported:
<dl compact>

<dt><b>-d</b>
<dd>Compare the contents of files with the same name in
both directories and output a list indicating what must
be changed in the two files to bring them into agreement.
The list format is described in
<i><a href="diff.html">diff</a></i>.

<dt><b>-s</b>
<dd>Suppress messages about identical files.

</dl>
</blockquote><h4><a name = "tag_001_014_438">&nbsp;</a>OPERANDS</h4><blockquote>
The following operands are supported:
<dl compact>

<dt><i>dir1</i><dd>
<dt><i>dir2</i><dd>A pathname of a directory to be compared.

</dl>
</blockquote><h4><a name = "tag_001_014_439">&nbsp;</a>STDIN</h4><blockquote>
Not used.
</blockquote><h4><a name = "tag_001_014_440">&nbsp;</a>INPUT FILES</h4><blockquote>
None.
</blockquote><h4><a name = "tag_001_014_441">&nbsp;</a>ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES</h4><blockquote>
The following environment variables may affect the execution of
<i>dircmp</i>:
<dl compact>

<dt><i>LANG</i><dd>Provide a default value for the internationalisation variables
that are unset or null.
If
<i>LANG</i>
is unset or null, the corresponding value from the
implementation-dependent default locale will be used.
If any of the internationalisation variables contains an invalid setting, the
utility will behave as if none of the variables had been defined.

<dt><i>LC_ALL</i><dd>
If set to a non-empty string value,
override the values of all the other internationalisation variables.

<dt><i>LC_COLLATE</i><dd>
Determine the locale for the ordering of the output.

<dt><i>LC_CTYPE</i><dd>
Determine the
locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as
characters (for example, single- as opposed to multi-byte characters
in arguments and input files).

<dt><i>LC_MESSAGES</i><dd>
Determine the locale that should be used to affect
the format and contents of diagnostic
messages written to standard error.

<dt><i>NLSPATH</i><dd>
Determine the location of message catalogues
for the processing of
<i>LC_MESSAGES .
</i>
</dl>
</blockquote><h4><a name = "tag_001_014_442">&nbsp;</a>ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS</h4><blockquote>
Default.
</blockquote><h4><a name = "tag_001_014_443">&nbsp;</a>STDOUT</h4><blockquote>
The output format of
<i>dircmp</i>
is unspecified, but includes:
<ul>
<p>
<li>
lists of pathnames in either
<i>dir1</i>
or
<i>dir2</i>,
but not both
<p>
<li>
when
<b>-d</b>
is given, listings of differences between files, as produced by
<i><a href="diff.html">diff</a></i>.
<p>
</ul>
</blockquote><h4><a name = "tag_001_014_444">&nbsp;</a>STDERR</h4><blockquote>
Used only for diagnostic messages.
</blockquote><h4><a name = "tag_001_014_445">&nbsp;</a>OUTPUT FILES</h4><blockquote>
None.
</blockquote><h4><a name = "tag_001_014_446">&nbsp;</a>EXTENDED DESCRIPTION</h4><blockquote>
None.
</blockquote><h4><a name = "tag_001_014_447">&nbsp;</a>EXIT STATUS</h4><blockquote>
The following exit values are returned:
<dl compact>

<dt>0<dd>Successful completion.

<dt>&gt;0<dd>An error occurred.
(Differences in directory contents are not considered errors.)

</dl>
</blockquote><h4><a name = "tag_001_014_448">&nbsp;</a>CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS</h4><blockquote>
Default.
</blockquote><h4><a name = "tag_001_014_449">&nbsp;</a>APPLICATION USAGE</h4><blockquote>
Applications should migrate to the
<i><a href="diff.html">diff</a></i>
<b>-r</b>
command.
</blockquote><h4><a name = "tag_001_014_450">&nbsp;</a>EXAMPLES</h4><blockquote>
None.
</blockquote><h4><a name = "tag_001_014_451">&nbsp;</a>FUTURE DIRECTIONS</h4><blockquote>
None.
</blockquote><h4><a name = "tag_001_014_452">&nbsp;</a>SEE ALSO</h4><blockquote>
<i><a href="cmp.html">cmp</a></i>,
<i><a href="diff.html">diff</a></i>.
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